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My New Orleans: The Cookbook
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My New Orleans: The Cookbook

In My New Orleans, Chef John Besh tells the enduring story of preserving the region’s rituals and livelihood through raising food well, cooking it with joy. It offers a unique culinary history of the city and its cooking while Chef Besh's advice ensures success for the home cook.


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Comics Books
No Dribbling the Squid

No Dribbling the Squid

Octopush, Shin Kicking, Elephant Polo, and Other Oddball Sports

In No Dribbling the Squid, armchair athletes—and anyone who enjoys tales of the strange and unusual—get a front-row seat at some of the world's most mind-blowing athletic feats. There's something here to tickle anyone.


The Spice Kitchen

The Spice Kitchen

Everyday Cooking with Organic Spices

The Spice Kitchen offers more than 100 delicious recipes for using herbs and spices to add vibrant flavors to your food at every meal. Best of all, the recipes are easy and fuss free—a must for busy home cooks who want to spend less time in the kitchen.


My Nepenthe

My Nepenthe

Bohemian Tales of Food, Family, and Big Sur

My Nepenthe weaves together stories and tales about the famous California restaurant perched on the majestic cliffs of Big Sur. It celebrates the magic and history of place through food and the Fassett family who started Nepenthe. Read the reviews


New Puzzle Books

Puzzles Books
Reasons to Be Happy

Reasons to Be Happy

The perfect gift for any occasion, Reasons to Be Happy will put a smile on your face and a skip in your step! This heartfelt and eclectic list of things that should make everyone smile, is illustrated with unique watercolor illustrations bu author Sandy Gingras.


How to Drink

How to Drink

Author Victoria Moore shows how to drink well throughout the seasons and at all times of day. How to Drink is a hugely readable, browseable and authoritative handbook, whose aim is to inform, entertain and crucially, make sure you can find the right drink at the right time.


Baking Kids Love

Baking Kids Love

Ready, set, bake! Baking is fun, a great way to connect with kids, and the results are delicious. In Baking Kids Love baking instructor Cindy Mushet and her daughter Bella team up with cookware authority Sur La Table to carefully guide kids through the experience of creating awesome masterpieces in the kitchen.


Butter My Butt and Call Me a Biscuit

Butter My Butt and Call Me a Biscuit

And Other Country Sayings, Say-So's, Hoots and Hollers

They're called colloquialisms, idioms, of just good old fashioned, home-grown country sayings. Butter My Butt and Call Me a Biscuit, offers up more than 200 vernacular verses.


Jasper's Kitchen Cookbook

Jasper's Kitchen Cookbook

Italian Recipes and Memories from Kansas City's Legendary Restaurant

For 55 years, Jasper's has been a Kansas City institution. Now fans can get the Jasper's taste at home with more than 100 classic and contemporary Italian recipes in Jasper's Kitchen Cookbook.


The Amish Cook's Baking Book

The Amish Cook's Baking Book

The Amish Cook's Baking Book is filled with 80 beautiful photographs and over 100 classic Amish recipes for sweets that have been handcrafted in author Lovina Eicher's Amish kitchen.


Why Dogs Are Better Than Cats

Why Dogs Are Better Than Cats

Dogs are social. Cats are sociopaths. Dogs want love. Cats want fish. With witty prose and captivating photos, Why Dogs Are Better Than Cats is a must-have book from best-selling author Bradley Trevor Greive and internationally acclaimed photographer Rachael Hale.


New York Times Best-Seller!
Cake Wrecks

Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong from the creator of the ultrapopular blog CakeWrecks.com. Here are the worst cakes ever, including the ugly, the silly, the downright creepy, the unintentionally sad or suggestive, and the just plain funny, along with witty commentary and behind-the-scenes tidbits. Includes 75% Never-Before-Seen Content!

Watch the Pictures MOVE on the Page!

Kids Love These Mini-Animotion Books

Mini-Animotion Books
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010 is the ultimate source for movies, movie reviews, and much more. The yearbook includes every review Ebert has written from January 2007 to July 2009. It also includes interviews, essays, tributes, and all-new questions and answers. This is the must-have go-to guide for movie fanatics.


Keep Calm and Carry On

Keep Calm and Carry On

Packed full of cheery motivational quotes, proverbs and mantras, Keep Calm and Carry On is an uplifting gift book meant to give you a boost through troubled times. Discovered on a poster created for British soldiers before World War II, the slogan still manages to strike a chord.


The Customer Is Not Always Right

The Customer Is Not Always Right

Hilarious and Horrific Tales of Customers Gone Wrong

Service is king, but The Customer Is Not Always Right. From groaning, to intense complaining, to situations that leave workers in disbelief readers will enjoy these hilarious tales of customers gone wrong.


The Cocktail Primer

The Cocktail Primer

All You Need to Know to Make the Perfect Drink

Now you can learn to mix like a master with The Cocktail Primer: All You Need to Know to Make the Perfect Drink. In this mixology guide to creating both classic cocktails and modern twists, you'll learn how to make drinks at home.


Celebrating Peanuts

Celebrating Peanuts

60 Years

On October 2, 1950, the world was introduced to a comic strip that would eventually become an unparalleled cultural icon. We are proud to honor the 60th anniversary of this phenomenon with Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years. Arranged by decade, this exclusive tribute chronicles the development of the strip and its characters over the years. It is packed with commentary from throughout Schulz's career, making this book not only a heartwarming tribute but also a true collector's item.


My Shorts R Bunching. Thoughts?

"My Shorts R Bunching. Thoughts?"

The Tweets of Roland Hedley

In March of 2009, Doonesbury's intrepid journalist Roland Burton Hedley, III, opened a Twitter account and began to tweet. A lot. Read the "best of tweets" in "My Shorts R Bunching. Thoughts?".


Tips Cooks Love

Tips Cooks Love

Over 500 Tips, Techniques, and Shortcuts That Will Make You a Better Cook!

Tips Cooks Love provides cooks with many valuable tips to use in the kitchen. The easy-to-use book is organized alphabetically for quick answers. It includes tips about ingredients as well as cookware, tools, cooking methods, and other handy information.


Imaginative Realism

Imaginative Realism

How to Paint What Doesn't Exist

In Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist, multi-media visionary James Gurney demystifies the mystic and raises the veil on creativity, inviting anyone in. Gurney’s detailed guidance is so warm, thorough, and personal that it goes way beyond being a simple how-to-paint instruction book.


Venezia

Venezia

Food & Dreams

In her evocative and beautiful cookbook, Venezia: Food & Dreams, Tessa Kiros' recipes are unique enough to intrigue experienced chefs yet easy enough for beginners to follow. The stunning photographs are as dynamic as the recipes. The pages are also sprinkled with Tessa’s travel insights and poetic observations.


Cooking the Cowboy Way

Cooking the Cowboy Way

Recipes Inspired by Campfires, Chuck Wagons, and Ranch Kitchens

In Cooking the Cowboy Way, you'll have a ringside seat at the rodeo as Grady Spears wrestles down new recipes from some incredible cowboy cooks and kitchen wranglers who know what hungry cow folks want to eat.


Bread Matters

Bread Matters

The State of Modern Bread and a Definitive Guide to Baking Your Own

Bread Matters is an essential bread book for beginning and seasoned bakers alike. Once you see how easy it is to make your own delicious bread at home, you may never buy commercial bread again. Andrew Whitley clearly explains the process in detailed discussions of the tools, ingredients, methods, and tricks of the breadmaking.


The Berghoff Café Cookbook

The Berghoff Café Cookbook

Berghoff Family Recipes for Simple, Satisfying Food

The eighty recipes in The Berghoff Café Cookbook include recipes from Great-grandfather Herman's café, updated for today's cook and customers' very favorite soups, salads, sandwiches, pizzas, and desserts. The recipes you'll find in this book are easy to prepare, look great on the plate, and are a pleasure to eat.